Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Sealfon

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 13:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rebecca Sealfon

user:Aplomado nominated this for prod with the following concern "Non-notable as per the decision of Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rageshree_Ramachandran". This article is sufficiently different from Ramachandran (who didn't have the additional, if marginal, assertions of notability). Personally I don't feel she's notable enough for her own article, but just notable enough to be merged into either Scripps National Spelling Bee or a Scripps National Spelling Bee winners article (along with other winners, including the deleted Ramachandran). Finlay McWalter | Talk 15:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

AfD is not for proposing merges! fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 13:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Her notability is very weak beyond her spelling bee win. Aplomado - UTC 16:39, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep I'm a huge spelling bee (and, incidentally, a huge "Cheap Seats" fan), so naturally, I love Rebecca Sealfon. With that said, for pretty much any other spelling bee champion, I would vote delete. However, the pop culture references to Sealfon, in my opinion, give her enough notability to have an article on WP. She is mentioned frequently on "Cheap Seats," including in non-spelling bee episodes, and the first time I saw that "South Park" episode, I immediately thought they based the character on Sealfon. In summation, I think this should stay, but just barely. -- Kicking222 16:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete another spelling bee winner. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:49, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if the pop culture references are true. Makes her notable. --Tone 22:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, seems notable. One chapter may not be enough, though. -- ReyBrujo 20:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, perhaps with a short mention at List of South Park characters. Stifle (talk) 15:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - a verifiable article, no good reason for deletion offered. For great justice. 17:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep verifiable, got lots of media attention at the time and is still remembered, won a very well known competition. Wikipedia is not paper, decent articles on obscure but highly verifiable people are fine. --W.marsh 04:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Spelling Bee win makes her notable (even if she's done nothing of note since then - it would be nice if the article could tell us what happened to her subsequently). Zaxem 09:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.